skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I also don't think it's constructive to conflate providing a service with making a profit. Plenty of people are happy doing just the former.

Can confirm. I spent years in the late 2000's running a phpBB board to enable discussion on a niche hobby. I spent probably a few thousand dollars on it over several years, we eventually waned in traffic and gave it up as everyone was moving to reddit. I never saw a penny of profit from that, nor expected it: some of our older members were happy to kick some cash my way to offset server costs. As a result, we had a community that was robust, friendly, open to everyone and 100% free to use. No scummy ads, no tracking, no surveillance, no "sponsored posts," none of it. It was glorious and I miss it every day.

I would've happily taken donations to offset the costs, but I never saw it as a money-making operation. Nowadays it feels basically unheard of to do anything online without the expectation of making money.
So the measurement is total application execution, not just the XML processing part itself? That's a bit of an unfair comparison, but then, it's a "micro"benchmark that should be taken with a grain of salt.
Yes but only if you shop to match the same criteria.

E.g a MacBook Pro may seem overpriced if you compare to average laptop costs but if you shop within laptops with the same display, battery life and performance unplugged, it is very fairly priced.

Similarly, Vision Pro seems expensive compared to average consumer headsets, but if you match its capabilities (eye tracking, high resolution display, etc) the next competitor are multiples of its price.
Saying I'd like to work with you to get this shippable is saying "I'm willing to let you put in an enormous amount of free labor as an editor."
Intelligence is next-token prediction.

See: active inference, predictive processing.
One can see cash as universal insurance. For example, if you have more than a car worth of cash in an easily accessible account, your car is effectively insured. If you break it, you can just buy another one. A car is a lot of money but insurance premiums are also a lot of money over time.

And unlike a car insurance that only covers your car and only in specific cases (ex: crashes are covered but not mechanical failures), cash covers for everything up to the value you have available. It doesn't mean you shouldn't get "proper" insurance, there are extreme events you would need way to much cash to cover (ex: civil liability, health,...), just that cash can be counted as insurance.
I suppose that your interpretation would be dependent on if you are postmodernist or not and if you believe in the death of the author.

I have never read the book or seen the file but the work is very interesting to me as when it get brought up people will start claiming all sorts of things from it.

I think the most insane from my point of view was when I heard/saw(can't remember if online or in person) an argument that all men are perverted and want to rape children. The proof was quotes from Lolita....
When you're deep enough in a thing it can be hard to know what counts as "high level summary." For example, "attackers can decloak routing-based VPNs" might seem like a good high level summary. "Attackers can decloak routing-based VPNs using DHCP rules that give priority to an attacker over other lower priority routes" might seem like it's just in the weeds enough to be misleading, or to result in a bunch of people now believing they are educated on the subject when they really are not.

Picking the right level to communicate such that you avoid clickbait journalists spreading a lie of omission/ hysteria is an art. Personally, I think we should be grateful for all the effort put into clearly communicating all the most relevant nuances; we can generalize that any high complexity field is doing its readers a service when it approaches communication this way. I'd rather the "result" be communicated at too high a level than too close to the middle (giving the illusion of understanding the nuance)
In principle it is possible. But shutdown isn't what you want. Because that would cause job losses, collapse of supply chain and all of that horror.

You need restructuring. Replace management, take control over the direction. Keep things running while the mess is resolved. It's not going to be fast, an it's not going to look nice. But at this point there are no other options.
I agree mortgages cannot be called in, unlike margin trading on stocks, but if you’re wildly upside down on a house then it literally traps you in the house unless you take those losses. If housing prices fall 50% it is also likely that economic conditions may mean you cannot afford the same house anymore. In a situation of missed payment, they can certainly foreclose on your house.
Ukraine Has Changed Too Much to Compromise with Russia
All you need is a symlink script that symlinks files in ~ to ~/path/to/your/dotfiles

https://github.com/pprotas/dotfiles/blob/main/symlink.sh

That's it.
Yes but Google don’t sell their hardware to others, so there’s no pricing information to compare it with.
It is more targeted at houseplants now but only because that’s what I know more about. Definitely love these ideas and want to make it better suited for outdoor plants. It could also be a good motivator to encourage people to create an account, so that they can get personalized results based on their location! I think hardiness zone and invasive status are good first steps.
Have you heard about this AI-powered crypto block-chain NFT start-up that uses LLMs to disrupt the pop-corn industry? Yeah, me too.

The goal of this article is to give you a better sense of what is what in AI, where things begin and end. Definitions often rely on arbitrarily choosing where things start and end. But in AI as in Nature, things may be fuzzy and overlap. Unless cited, the nomenclatures and definitions below are my own.
The modern FAANG Frankenstein interview is a mess. It was so/so at Google 15-20 years ago, it was so/so when initially FB but most everyone cargo-culted it 10-15 years ago. It’s become “grind leetcode” which is clearly a failure mode.

The trouble is it’s a hard problem, and it usually gives -some signal, so it’s sort of better than nothing? I guess? In cases where contract-to-hire make sense for both the company and candidate I generally regard that as ideal, but that’s not every situation.

Someone will solve this, and that person will be very well-loved.
From a macro view, competence requires growth, right?

Look at the 60s - there's tremendous excitement about space, astronauts are heroes, everyone is putting in 10x effort to get over the finish line.

What Boeing is being asked to do now is replicate this every few years, except all the attention, all the excitement, all the growth is gone. They have to recreate the miracle, but nobody cares!

SpaceX comes in and says - we have a new heroic mission. Do the same thing, but make it repeatable and efficient and stupid easy.
Floating inside the Earth, a thought experiment
It's not that strange. People tend to use what is popular.

There are several implementations of core across various languages, not including custom forks of core.
I highly recommend dotter, especially if your dotfiles have variation from machine to machine and or if you don't need all of them at a given time. It's pretty simple and lightweight

https://github.com/SuperCuber/dotter
> Based on the estimated 1.3bn doners that are consumed in the country each year – 400,000 a day in Berlin alone – such a subsidy programme would cost €4bn annually, Die Linke has calculated.

Let me get this straight: The "far-left Die Linke party" wants to subsidize meat eating? You know the thing with the not so great CO2 footprint and animal wellfare issues?
“<CEO’s sector of ascension> all the things”, so currently “Azure all the things”
Biden Administration Rolls Out International Cybersecurity Plan at RSA
Performance is another one; there was one benchmark post I read a while ago that compared a stdlib implementation with a custom implementation, and the gist of it was that the stdlib had a few extra safety checks to prevent crashes and the like.

It's setting your sliders. If you have robust and predictable input, you can forego some of the safety checks in favor of performance.
I'm sure that's desired. But staying inside a range is always difficult, and cryogenic temperatures probably make it harder, both for valve materials and things like water in air freezing on the valve or ice clogging vents.

I'm told liquid hydrogen actually is somewhat compressible, and metals change properties when cold, so room temp and pressure physical intuition may mislead.
Interesting read regarding "missed inspections": https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/01/boeing-boeing/#mrsa
The Twitter example is the exact nearsighted reason a lot of comments like the one we're all talking about come up.

A lot of smart people spent years trying to make a resilient system and then everyone claims they aren't needed when it doesn't immediately crumble.

There are also many examples of huge gaps in content moderation, customer reps, and other "useless" functions that has lead to it's decay other than just it's unhinged CEO.

Twitter swallowed a poison pill, and we're just seeing some of the onset of sickness.
I'd hope it'd be a signal that we can't allow an industry to regulate itself
- licensing ensures only a minimum level of quality

- people with licenses still do interviews, often just as grueling

- licensed careers with high performers (lawyers, doctors, ib, etc) have other forms of filtering which are much more painful, like years of low pay internships

Studying for a few weeks to solve fun puzzles to make 400k sounds like a deal to me.
I wouldn't say they haven't had any repercussions. The whole 737 Max debacle cost them an estimated $20 billion (https://web.archive.org/web/20201221001329/https://www.cnn.c...).

But I do agree that overall there needs to be more repercussions. Unfortunately they are a "too big to fail" kind of company considering how critical they are to the aviation industry as a whole.
> The spec usually (always?) doesn't mention expected bounds

Actually, I was just reading the other day that there are a few places where the specs do explicitly state expectations, such as performance characsteristics for Map/Set/WeakMap/WeakSet

> Maps must be implemented using either hash tables or other mechanisms that, on average, provide access times that are sublinear on the number of elements in the collection. The data structure used in this specification is only intended to describe the required observable semantics of Maps. It is not intended to be a viable implementation model.

https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/keyed-collections.html#sec...
Sure tho do remember they disabled these sensors on software too I'm pretty sure, same reason why they physically disabled them if you sent it in for repair
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/gender-discrimination-forced-this-...
I work in a different sector. If we built planes it'd be raining bodies.

If you go looking you will find. And it's almost never pretty stuff. There is however a lot of paperwork filled in that says everything is fine.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211188
It is easier to approach it, if instead of trying to see UNIX everywhere, one thinks of the REPL environments from Xerox PARC/ETHZ, or even AmigaDOS with REXX.
I would think not. The GPU is a bit part of the equation for compute , and there’s very little in the way of ML libraries targeting the standard graphics APIs available on Linux.
yes. they can stop doing that (and in fact have already walked back some of that)
Non proper and standard HTML email was and still is a mistake.

You're really rolling a dice on what may work, even if it's valid HTML
We scrapped coding tests at our last round of hiring, but the interviewees were so bad they everyone’s time was wasted. We had to bring it back just to filter people out.
Noting though that barring extreme cases, a safety issue with a batch of drugs would be really hard to detect.
I will say it's having an impact on me personally. In the tech world, we work in 2 week Sprints and Sprints have Stories. Stories are Pointed efforts rated on level of effort that need to be completed within a single Sprints. Developers can only be allotted X number of Points per Sprint. If stories aren't done, then you usually need to reflect on why and improve, typically breaking down high pointed stories into smaller ones. The problem with many organizations face is that instead of leaving a Story open and answering the why, they'll simply close the problem Story and open a new one with the missed worked. This causes problems all over the place and snowballs if not addressed. In my situation, we also cancelled Retros so concerns weren't being raised further compounding things and finger pointing.

So what may have started as an over zealous developer with a well intentioned manager can become a trend leading to missed deadlines, cut corners and defective code making it to production.

I started to realize that I was no different than Boeing; that I was Boeing and that hasn't sat right with me. So for better or worse, I'm going to be more vocal about things.
"Hyper-V is undeniably a critical component of the Microsoft virtualization stack runs on it, but it's also used in Virtualization-Based Security, Windows Containers, Windows Subsystem for Linux, Windows Subsystem for Android, and even the Xbox."

weird sentence
What misery? The hyperbole here is astounding.
Everything that we buy at Costco, i.e., organic vegetables and fruits, bread, cheese, nuts and dried fruit, pasta and pasta sauce, coffee beans, dog food, vitamins, etc. (notably not meat as the quantities are too large for us), is considerably cheaper at Costco than local grocery stores for the same item or of the same level (i.e., organics). (You can get really good deals on wine too if you don't care about variety.) Certain other things, milk, eggs, meat, we buy only local as much as we can. Yes, the selection is limited but it works great for us because we are 1) focused on a limited selection of higher quality raw foods; 2) avoid processed/pre-made foods as much as possible; 3) buy larger quantities less frequently.

Not to mention the gas. With a Costco credit card, total savings are substantial. It's always at least 50 cents cheaper per gallon than other gas stations, and if you know when to go there isn't a huge line.

Edit: Besides meat, we also don't buy paper products at Costco, as a few years ago we switched to bamboo-based toilet paper and paper tools (reelpaper.com though there are others). It's definitely more expensive but it's just the choice we made. Same thing for switching from plastic to compostable garbage bags (not available at Costco), and absolutely no bottled water or soda cans (another Costco favorite for many) - we use DrinkMate for seltzer (besides, soda, i.e., Coke etc., is strictly verboten in the house along with sugary snacks--the kids gripe but are healthy, and that's another reason we buy lots of fruit).
Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?
Communication is more than reading and writing words and sentences. I would distinguish between complex discussions and discussions about complex topics.
If I had to guess which of Random and RandomNumberGenerator was the cryptographically secure one, I would have guessed wrong. It's not clear either way.
> New function attribute null_terminated_string_arg(PARAM_IDX) for indicating parameters that are expected to be null-terminated strings.

Why is this not a type attribute?
I've seen the small Muji house last year and thought it would be a nice addition in our garden :D
No kidding. I'd be happy to walk through the stuff I have on github but I also don't want my coworkers measured by whether they do the same.

If anything, personal projects can end up being distractions from focusing singularly on work. Even though I'm entirely in favour of them, I also remember when I had a newborn at home and a family member in hospital, and such projects were not at all feasible.
As surprising as it might be, narcissistic personality disorder won’t go away simply as people age, especially if they live in a social bubble where they are sent overall continuous positive feedback that society is very pleased at the global result of their behavior.
Windows Admin Center was created because everyone wanted to manage Windows from a web browser. The current result is it works, but it's far from an optimal GUI solution for managing Windows machines.
There isn’t a way for users to add plants at the moment. Curious what plants you were looking for though. I can try to identify stores to partner with that have them.
How to win friends and influence people - Dale Carnegie.
Influence - Robert Cialdini.

Like it or not, we enter into "adversarial" situations every day.
They say quite clearly why in their privacy policy: https://proton.me/legal/privacy (section 2.5: IP Logging).

> 2.5 IP logging: By default, we do not keep permanent IP logs in relation with your Account. However, IP logs may be kept temporarily to combat abuse and fraud, and your IP address may be retained permanently if you are engaged in activities that breach our terms and conditions (e.g. spamming, DDoS attacks against our infrastructure, brute force attacks). The legal basis of this processing is our legitimate interest to protect our service against nefarious activities. If you enable authentication logging for your Account or voluntarily participate in Proton's advanced security program, the record of your login IP addresses is kept for as long as the feature is enabled. This feature is off by default, and all the records are deleted upon deactivation of the feature. The legal basis of this processing is consent, and you are free to opt in or opt out of that processing at any time in the security panel of your Account. The authentication logs feature records login attempts to your Account and does not track product-specific activity, such as VPN activity.
I'm no JavaScript expert but have been looking into the vCard spec recently. Excellent job, though. Both iCal and vCard specs are hard to read and understand so good job on creating this based on them.
That's correct - the state is 300 bytes (36 uint64 + 3 uint32).
https://go.dev/src/internal/chacha8rand/chacha8.go
> If people are willing to spend more, then nothing really changed. If anything, goods and services were mispriced beforehand. If they raise the prices too high, nobody can afford the vet services and they will go out of business.

I don't agree with this theory or pricing when the purchase decisions are often made under duress, and the market is opaque. The last time I called around for quotes for getting my cat's teeth cleaned, nobody would give numbers over the phone, they all wanted me to come in for an exam first, and the next exam opening wasn't that week, it was in like 2 or 3 weeks. If a person is at the vet for something relatively urgent, they don't have much of a choice.
nah tor is not trustworthy, as it also exposes you as a tor user; in a less developed countries, where not many people know how to use Tor, you'll stick out real bad. It is much better to use shady random proxy servers you'll find online, before connecting to Tor; it is extremely slow, but much safer, as the authoritarian state monitors won't be able to see that subpoenaed ip adresses come from tor exit nodes, conveniently at the same time period you (and basically no one else) were using Tor.
Actual engineering licenses in the US have kind of solved this.

There’s the easy exam that pretty much everyone passes eh e they get their degree (the FE), and then there’s the hard one that not even everyone attempts after a couple years of experience (the PE).

And within each level, you specify your discipline (civil, mechanical, etc) and then are required to have deeper knowledge of several subfields within that discipline.
> I imagine it would be something easy that admits tons of mediocre devs

Given that Medical boards and the Bar strike fear into the hearts of students and demand immense preparation, I think we could do pretty well. The test prep mentality isn’t altogether different from the “grinding leetcode” that happens today anyway. The difference is that it would at least be fair.
because most of the time the parameter is going to be a plain char*.
>"Timeless

This representation also has no runtime. In fact, there is

no time.

Think of the compiled bit vector as

every possible answer frozen the moment before observation.

When we evaluate it, it

instantaneously gives us an answer.

The compilation process converts state changes over time into a singular, intertwined state. The compiled bit vector is a closed system, unable to receive additional input symbols.

All state that is and will be is already encoded.

That's the reason I did not attempt to make RAM. RAM is for temporary storage. That would only be needed if there were time, change, or other input."

This is one of the most fascinating articles I've read in a long time! Here we see links between low-level logic/computer building-block functions (XOR, AND, NOT, OR, etc.), Polynomials, solving what initially appear to be complicated integer algorithms in a computer programming language, and the relationship of evaluation to time and conversely, the relationship of no-evaluation to no-time, again, for lack of a better description...

Well worth reading and a re-reading in the future, for the understanding of the link between Polynomials and low-level logic functions...

>"All state that is and will be is already encoded."

I also wonder if there might be any link between this and Holograms and/or The Holographic Principle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography
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I guess in the open source side we would talk about Github projects with the greatest READMEs...
I have never heard of the negative base question (I would have never passed that without help): https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/216800/how-i-conver...

My worst interview questions that were silly:

• number theory for django dev: how many prime numbers are there.

• random brain teaser for django dev: infinite lasers pointed in space that turn at each other at the rotational speed of light- does the intersection travel faster than the speed of light

And questions that were very fair that I bombed:

• ms paint fill method on whiteboard. I think I checked diagonals when I wasnt supposed to - i cant remember but they were not happy with my answer.

• for a given phone number and a US dialpad what are all the possible letter combinations for the number? In python this is just the built in cartesian product. But I still struggle to write it from scratch with a recursive function and getting the accumulation correct.
It would be nice. There are already too many devs and if we can lower that number by controlling the licensing our wages would also stay very high.
TSMC booked on advanced packaging until 2025
Thinking like an engineer, from the companies perspective, its just a filter.

While it could be the case that candidate A who passes the coding interview makes a terrible employee, while candidate B who does not pass the interview would make a better one, it doesn't matter. As long as the pool of candidates who pass the coding interview, fares better than the pool who does not, it will be a useful tool until someone comes up with a better one.

And the alternatives were worse. There was a time where unless you graduated from a top-flight school, or were top X% at one of the better state schools, or had some other "in" (e.g. knowing somebody) the cool kids at the time (Microsoft/Apple/Yahoo/Intel/etc.) wouldn't even talk to you
This take is pretty revisionist. IE4 wasn't good, ActiveDesktop and ActiveX were either useless or actually bad. AJAX was probably the only good thing out of IE, and I would not dare to call it an happy accident but I'm tempted